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Handsy
Luke Taggart hit a brick wall when he turned 30. His dream was to make his living as an artist, but his paintings gathered dust instead of sales. His coffee shop Percolate barely paid the bills, and living paycheck to paycheck was killing his soul. Then a chance encounter with his boyhood crush offered him a way out of his financial despair, but it involved life-changing decisions not easily reversed. Plus, he might have to surrender his heart in the process. Cast out of his home at a tender age, Joe relied on the world’s oldest profession to make ends meet. After leaving the world of hustling behind he struggled to find a path forward, until one day the family that originally betrayed him...
Kirinya
The end of the universe happened at around ten o’clock at night on 22 December, 2032. It’s just that humanity hasn’t realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into someone else’s terra. Gaby McAslan was once a hungry news reporter who compromised her relationship with UNECTA researcher Dr. Shepard for the sake of her story... but Gaby is no longer a journalist and she doesn’t want to be a full-time mother, even though her child Serena is her last link with Shepard. Gaby’s fire has gone out; she’s gone soft. But the massive political and military upheavals rocking the world are about to drag her back into the action. REVIEWS "This is a huge and ambitious novel, the work of a supremely talented writer approaching the top of his game." – SFX "So outstanding a writer that he deserves reading beyond the science-fantasy market ... He has such marvellous talent, so vivid an imagination. His prose sings and zings – simultaneously." – The Times
Making It Wicked
"Do you believe in ghosts?" Working at Haunted Hollow Scream Park was supposed to be just another Halloween gig for Ben Mercer, but when he meets Theo Hawthorne-the park's serious and buttoned-up event coordinator-he quickly realizes this job might hold more thrills than he bargained for. For Theo, running Haunted Hollow is his chance to make the season unforgettable. He's focused on pulling off the perfect event, but Ben's irresistible charm and laid-back attitude are a distraction he didn't plan for. Just as their chemistry starts to heat up, they stumble upon a ghost trapped in the park's haunted forest-a restless spirit whose tragic death decades ago has cursed the land. As Theo and Ben ...
Mr. Mouthful
Big Talent, Huge Ego, and an Enormous… Everything. Josh- After years of hard work I finally landed my dream job as a musician with a major orchestra. When our new conductor with a name too hard to pronounce strutted on to the stage for the first time, he oozed a confident and cocky sex appeal that captivated me and every other person present. I was used to being the wallflower, the boy always picked last for the team. So when he demanded I meet him after work for a private rehearsal, I was shocked. Of course I went, only to discover my new conductor was a bit handsy, if you know what I mean. At first I thought I was reading too much into it, but the chemistry sparking between us was real. ...
Season's Greetings
On December 18th 2018 steelworker Ian Lewis awoke to find a stunning piece of street art on the side of his garage. A few days later Banksy claimed "Season's Greetings" as his first ever artwork in Wales and the World descended on Taibach, Port Talbot to see the most notorious artist in the World's latest creation. This book tells the story of what happens when an everyday, working man becomes the custodian of the latest must-see piece of art from everybody's favourite graffiti artist. Following the highs and lows of the steelworker's time with a Banksy, this entertaining first person account, reveals the gritty truth about what it's really like when Banksy pays a visit to a wall owned by you. Featuring a host extraordinary characters, all drawn to Banksy's iconic artwork, this colourful memoir captures a unique perspective on the street art scene in the UK - and what Banksy's art means to the ordinary people of an industrial town like Port Talbot.
A Voyage to Arcturus (航向大角星)
Scottish novelist David Lindsay (1876-1945) was born to a middle-class Calvinist family, forced by poverty to work as an insurance clerk instead of attending university, and at the age of forty took up the cause and worked his way to Corporal of the Royal Army Pay Corps in World War I. After the war he moved to Cornwall with his wife and began writing full-time, publishing his first novel, "A Voyage to Arcturus", in 1920. Although the science fiction novel initially sold less than six hundred copies, it has come to be known as a major "underground" novel of the 20th century, and heavily influenced C.S. Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet". The story is set at Tormance, an imaginary planet orbiting Arcturus, where an adventurous Scot named Muskall has travelled and where he encounters myriad characters and lands that reflect Lindsay's critique of various philosophical systems.
First Love, Last Rites
Somerset Maugham Award winner: Dark early fiction by the author of Nutshell—“A splendid magician of fear” (The Village Voice Literary Supplement). Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, the stories here show us how murder can arise out of boredom, perversity from adolescent curiosity—and how sheer evil can become the solution to unbearable loneliness. These short fiction pieces from the early career of the New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach are claustrophobic tales of childhood, twisted psychology, and disjointed family life as terrifying as anything by Stephen King—and finely crafted with a lyricism and an intensity that compels us to confront our secret kinship with what repels us. “A powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “Ian McEwan’s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico’s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb.” —The New York Times
Making It Sizzle
“Me, settle down? No way, professor. But, if you want the best night of your life, I’m right next door.” Landon Smith has a problem. He’s socially awkward, prefers coding over cocktails, and occasionally wears mismatched socks. His life is full, working as an adjunct professor at the local college, and volunteering as a tutor for underprivileged youths. Then his worst nightmare moves in next door to him, a macho ex-marine who just won’t leave him alone. They have nothing in common, until the brawny man begs Landon to tutor him. He agrees, but only after Angel promises to keep his paws to himself. Angel Perez is the devil, or at least that’s what Landon thinks. But, there’s some...
Independent Thinking
Think for yourself before someone does it for you. The first in a new series by and for people who know how important it is to think for yourself. Written by Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert, this book is an invaluable collection of reflections, ideas and insights on the nature of learning, thinking, creativity and, drawing on Ian s experience in three continents, the role education has in changing not only people s lives but also entire societies. Combining articles published in the UK, Middle East and South America plus examples of his controversial online postings and Tweets with new observations and insights and at least 100 Twittered Thunks or Twunks this book is the informed ramblings of a passionate educationalist who has made a significant difference to classrooms for over 20 years and has earned the right to speak his mind.
Gentleman Overboard
Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today's readers to launch Boiler House Press's new series, Recovered Books. Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his absence. By the time the ship's captain is notified, it may be too late to save him... Rediscovered in 2009 by Brad Bigelow as part of tireless research for his popular Neglected Books website, Gentleman Overboard has since achieved the status of a cult classic and even become something of an international phenomenon, having seen translations into Spanis...
